A small country in Central America, Guatemala, stands out at a worldwide level for its extraordinaire biological diversity and its wide variety of beautiful landscapes. In only 108,000 km2 there are over 700 bird species. In a few weeks, a birdwatcher may identify more than 300 species in a fabulous trip that goes from the humid cloud forests to desert-like lands, visiting at the same time its incredible archaeological and cultural legacy. Guatemala has a high diversity of regional endemics that belong to 4 main regions of endemism.

Within a mosaic of 7 main ecosystems, Guatemala holds one of the most interesting bird assemblages in the world. Take a closer look at our Guatemala map to discover more about each region of the birding regions.

Amongst the different activities related to ecotourism in Guatemala, birding is a fairly new activity in our country. The Guatemalan Bird Watching Roundtable is striving to turn Guatemala into the latest Neotropical bird watching hotspot! There are many service providers (destinations, tour operators, guides and more) that can help you make your birding trip in Guatemala an unforgettable experience.

We hope you will enjoy this site and we are sure you will see some wonderful birds in Guatemala. If you would like to send us your comment about this site or about your birding experience, we would love to hear from you.

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Promotion of Memberships

The Birdwathcing Round Table invites you to be part of it getting numerous benefits. Working with us will make accomplish our mission of making birdwatching activities to strengthen Guatemala's position both locally and globally as a top site in birdwatching.

Birdwatching in Guatemala

Welcome to Guatemala's Birdwatching Portal

A small country in Central America, Guatemala, stands out at a worldwide level for its extraordinaire biological diversity and its wide variety of beautiful landscapes. In only 108,000 km2 there are over 700 bird species. In a few weeks, a birdwatcher may identify more than 300 species in a fabulous trip that goes from the humid cloud forests to desert-like lands, visiting at the same time its incredible archaeological and cultural legacy. Guatemala has a high diversity of regional endemics that belong to 4 main regions of endemism.

Birdwatching Tourism Round Table Books

We invite you to acquire the material and books that the Birdwatching Tourism Round Table is promoting. This material contains numerous data and valuable information of the birdwatching activities and sites in Guatemala. It also contains information of the most common ecosystems and biomes in which the birding activities are developed.

Since its creation in 2004, the Birdwatching Tourism Round Table has been working in the elaboration and generation of material and information about the potential sites to develop birdwatching and the activities that it implies. It has also been working in generating the technical and scientific information regarding birds of Guatemala and their habitat.